BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.
[by TELEGUARH— PER unless ASSOCIATION I PATRIOTIC FRENCHMAN. PARIS, March 11.
For the purpose of encouraging earlier marriages M. Cognncq, Proprietor of a; vbig departmental store, has given the French Acaifcniy securities yielding an income of 1 ,(“>(!,000 francs a. year, and has instructed the Academy to award annually 100 prizes of 10,000 francs each to parents under 50 years of a re with a minimum of five children. M. Cqgnaeq and his wife also presented the Academy three years ago with securities yielding 2250 thousand francs, for 90 annual prizes to parents with a minimum of nine children. The capital value of the Cognacq gifts totals 61,000,000 francs'.
EGYPT’S STRUGGLE. MOSLEM LADIES PARADE. CAIRO, March 9. Two hundred Moslem ladies, in white veils, engaged a fleet of taxis and motor cars a.nd paraded Cairo city, displaying banners with slogans insisting on the reparation of the exiled Nationalist’ political leaders. The police vainly attempted to break up the procession to the amusement of an enthusiastic rebel crowd lining the streets.
BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON March 11
A largely signed resolution will he submitted to a meeting of the Conservative Unionist members of Parliament on Tuesday, pointing out the grave concern with which the signatories regard the tendency to weaken the solidarity of the party, and emphasising the conviction that, in view of the economic depression and widespread unemployment, and of the urgent necessity for a continued effort at the reconstruction of Europe, this conflicting action within the party is deplorable.
LENIN CONFIDENT. HELSINGFORS, March 11
M. Lenin, addressing the metal workers, said lie hoped to attend the Genoa, Conference personally, and to bargain with the capitalistic govern merits. He would tell Mr Lloyd George that the Soviet was not afraid. He agreed with Trotsky that the Soviet Army meanwhile must keep its powder dry, because potent Allied influences were aiming at a now suyti-Soviet conflict,
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